I need a distraction from the distraction, if indeed it is a distraction.
SU, Saintfan? (who knows, maybe you’ll get to take the scratchy sweater off after all 
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I don’t know how different devices work and whether we have more than one option, but I click on the little gear up in the top right-hand corner, choose preferences, and then select change my picture on the left-hand side of the screen. I wonder if there’s a button I could be using that would save me a step or two.
You’re a savior! That is completely different than how I was doing it before, but I am so glad to be able to slip into something more comfortable.
Cute, but why isn’t that kitty wearing a number 12 shirt instead?
Mine aren’t because I’m too cheap to buy them one (plus good luck finding a Seahawks shirt for your doggies nowadays).
SNL opening on this was hilarious.
Just needed to get into something less binding fast. I’ll pull out the jersey later next week.
Those exact same things were true of Manning in the last Super Bowl. Well, going into the last Super Bowl anyway.
So why did the Colts’ footballs remained fully inflated? For that matter, why did one of the Patriots’ footballs remained fully inflated?
Yep - that is tough to explain with the weather theory
Maybe the Colts’ balls were inflated with less than ideal gas
Saintfan - is that a hospital gown you are wearing?
The weather theory makes no sense at all, unless you’re going to say that the Patriots experienced different weather during the game than the Colts did. In fact no theory makes sense if the condition of that theory happened to both teams. It HAD to have been something which happened to the Patriots, but didn’t happen to the Colts. Hmm, what could that be, I wonder?
It’s just so darn inconvenient that the league thought to check the Colts’ footballs.
No, BB, it’s just a regular cotton nighty
Phew, thank goodness you are ok, saintfan! 
LOL you crack me up, saintfan. Your cat is one in a million.
sainfan, Your cat is in need of a fashion makeover. The color and neckline are all wrong. I’m hoping this is just her (?) little something to sleep in…
^^^I totally agree. It makes her look big in the hips.
I can’t believe the Patriots are proposing that cockamamie weather excuse. How stupid do they think everyone is?! Weather was different on THEIR side of the field? What a bunch of baloney.
While I would like to thank Bill Belichick’s deflated balls for bringing out the twelve-year-old in all of us, it’s still not enough to get me to watch SHIELDBALL.
Science!
HeadSmart Labs “DeflateGate” Study finds that the average pressure drop due to cold temperatures and wet balls was 1.8 psi with a max of 1.95 psi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxsXFX3tDpg]y
Carnegie Mellon weights in:
http://www.wtae.com/news/people-are-talking-about-deflategate-in-pittsburgh/30867638
What I read about the 12th ball was that it was deflated less, but was still under pressure. So maybe that one started out higher.
Without knowing the starting and ending pressures of the Colts’ balls, who can say.
waving my flag wildly on the bus route as my team heads to the airport!
Here’s the link to the skit I wrote about last night …
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/patriots-press-conference-cold-open/2842425
The issue is not the Colts’ balls. Maybe they over inflate because Luck likes them hard. I don’t know but the Patriots have been accused of cheating and they’ve said they didn’t and they’ve put out evidence - their tests - that show two things:
- The process of preparing the balls has an effect.
- The weather has an effect.
Since I’ve learned people have low reading comprehension when it comes to sports (and politics), they leave out 1: Bill Belichick was very clear that the prep of the ball appears to raise its psi. It then settles and loses perhaps a pound of pressure apart from the weather. Again, this is in addition to any weather effect. He was very clear about this: they tested the balls in their normal process and discovered this would happen.
BTW, he also said they had the QBs Brady and Garropolo blind test balls at different pressures and they couldn’t tell 1 pound difference - actually made wrong guesses - and could feel some difference more reliably at 2 pounds.
My guess is that teams play with balls at a variety of pressures depending on their process for rubbing them up and the ambient temperatures. (Some hot weather teams may in fact do things like chill the balls if it’s hot but I don’t care.)
I’ve described the process for rubbing up footballs, as detailed by a former backup QB for the Patriots, Giants, etc. He said they put the balls in a big industrial dryer for 30 minutes to take the sheen off, then rubbed them against pieces of astroturf that were attached a bench and then pushed the points into the top of the bench to soften them. He said this is standard process, though the detail may vary. Remember, NFL balls arrive unlaced, not just deflated. The QB then comes in and picks up the balls one by one, testing for how it feels in his hand. This QB and another said each ball feels a little different and you go by your gut about how the laces and leather feel. The QB rejects some. Those are set aside for the kicker to use, though now of course the NFL provides the balls for kickers.